Final Word on the Password Problem

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Bob Stockler propounded (on Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 08:03:51PM -0400):
| On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 03:49:38PM -0400, Nancy Palmquist wrote:
| | 
| | I have posted this comment many times over the years, but you should
| | assign a site password right now.  ALWAYS do it.
| | 
| | Write it down, put it in the safe and let it attach to your programs as
| | you work.  It will never bother you again.
| | 
| | When all your processes have a password, as soon as it it changed and
| | you try to access an existing process, you will be alerted with a
| | password prompt.
| | 
| | If you have none on any procesing, assigning a site password will be
| | silent and invisible, as you have witnessed. As you work, each table
| | with no current password, will be assigned the new one.  You will never
| | notice the change until that master site password is lost or changed.
| | 
| | Isn't it better to have the password assigned by you so you will always
| | be able to access the tables?
| 
| With all due respect, I can't disagree more.
| 
| I'm for ABE=ASCII and "no site password".

Absolutely.

Nancy, why are you strongly advocating the password?

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JP